Scientific Research Journal (SCIRJ), Volume VI, Issue X, October 2018 1 ISSN 2201-2796 THE EFFECT OF INSURGENCY ON EDUCATION IN THE NORTH-EASTERN NIGERIA CASE OF BOKO HARAM HASSAN, Umaru1, ALH. DAUDA, Moh’d 2, MOH’D, Ibrahim Dibal3 & SALE, Auwal Liman4 (1,2,3) Federal Polytechnic Damaturu, School of Science and Technology, Department of Statistic (4) Adamawa Polytechnic Numann, Adamawa State. Email: [email protected], [email protected], 08065290329 DOI: 10.31364/SCIRJ/v6.i10.2018.P1018570 http://dx.doi.org/10.31364/SCIRJ/v6.i10.2018.P1018570 Abstract: Right from the outbreak of violence that has caused the death of thousands of people and subsequent attack on schools, teachers and children are in disarray in the affected areas. UNICEF estimated that not less than 2,295 teachers had been killed, in Nigeria and neighboring countries in recent violence by Boko Haram. This research work intends to examine the consequence of Boko Haram’s activities on education. What could be the effect of the growing fear that some of these girls and women in captivity were radicalized on their educational pursuit? In this research, a well-structured questionnaire and interview methods was employed to sort for responses. A sample of Two thousand (2000) people whom are assumed to be a former Boko Haram abductees or members are to be used in the study by employing a purposeful sampling technique to the 21 registered Internally Displaced Persons (IDP’s) camps and those living with their relatives across the northeast. To gain much success, soldiers should be banned from using schools as military base to avoid such schools being targeted. Government should deploy enough security at schools in the North-East so as to ensure children are not deprived of education in schools or safe learning centers There is a need for government also ensure parents and relatives of the missing girls are updated on the efforts to bring back their loved ones lack of which only contributes to their sufferings. This study is expected to guide in decision making and policy formulation as it’s relate to victims of boko Haram. Keywords: boko haram, insurgency, education I. INTRODUCTION Each country in the world seeks to a high quality of life and education for its citizenry, strong and diversified economic base, internal cohesion and political stability. This cannot be achieved without peaceful coexistence and enabling environment. Boko Haram’s attacks on education has led to destruction of schools, also Teachers and students alike have suffered. “The conflict has left nearly 1 million children with little or no access to school, and Nigeria’s security forces have contributed to the problem by using schools as military bases, Boko Haram’s increasingly brutal assaults on schools, students, and teachers since 2009 in Borno, Yobe, Adamawa and Kano states”. Between the years 2009 and 2015, Boko Haram’s attacks destroyed more over 910 schools and forced not less than 1,500 to close up as reported by HRW. Nigeria’s Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, has said “2,295 teachers were killed in attacks by insurgents in the North-east”. Nigeria (premium times, 6th June, 2018) and another 19,000 forced to flee in fear of being killed. The sect has abducted over 2,000 people, some of whom are women and girls, including large number of students. (EDT Nigeria, 2016). Boko Haram happens to be one of the most unique, unpredicted and complex sect’s crises Nigeria has ever faced with since Independence. “The peculiarity of the group in Nigeria is not in its criminality but the sectarian nature of its agenda, which make it different from the dynamics of resource-driven localized violent conflicts between different ethnic groups in Plateau state, or the ethnic claims of insurgent groups such as the O’odua People’s Congress (OPC), the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) and the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB)”. (Mac-Antoine, 2014). The group Jama’atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda’Awati Wal Jihad, known all over the world as Boko Haram, is an extremist Islamic group in Nigeria that has caused havoc on our people in northeastern part of Nigeria including Abuja, and some parts of chad, Cameroon and Niger. Various conflicting reports have grown up around Boko Haram, and its origins, motivations, and future plans remain a matter of debate by scholars. Femi, (2014). www.scirj.org © 2018, Scientific Research Journal http://dx.doi.org/10.31364/SCIRJ/v6.i10.2018.P1018570 Scientific Research Journal (SCIRJ), Volume VI, Issue X, October 2018 2 ISSN 2201-2796 Dr Ahmad Murtada of the Islamic Studies Department, University of Bayero, Kano has noted in his research of the group that the name of the movement should not be understood literally from the Hausa, but rather as meaning "traversing the Western system of education is haram". Ahmad, (2012). But remote villages who do not understand the affairs of states are mostly affected by boko haram activities. II. LITERATURE REVIEW The origins of Boko Haram is traced to a group of Muslim youth who worshipped at the Alhaji Muhammadu Ndimi Mosque in Maiduguri for years. In 2002, some of these youths (not yet known as Boko Haram) declared “the state and the Islamic establishment to be intolerably corrupt and irredeemable as against the teaching of Islam”. The group declared to get on hijra (a withdrawal along the lines of the Prophet Muhammad’s(SWA) withdrawal from Mecca to Medina). They moved from Maiduguri, Borno state to a place called Kanama in Yobe state, close to the border with Niger republic, to establish a community run on Islamic principles. The leader, Mohammed Ali, adopted an ideology and called on other Muslims to join to him is the return to a life under “true” Islamic law, which aims at making a more decent society away from the corrupt and indecent establishments. In December 2003, the group and the neighboring community had a dispute on fishing right in a pond which led to a confrontation between the Nigeria police and the sect. Consequently, lead to the killing of 270 members including Mohammed Ali. Andrew, (2012). and Shehu, (2014). The few survivors of the “Nigerian Taliban” went back to Maiduguri, where they settled with the other members who originated at the Ndimi mosque. Mohammed Yusuf as the leader of Maiduguri group, who was born in Girgir village of Yobe State then decided on building the group’s own mosque in Maiduguri Shehu, (2014). This mosque, was built on land to the North-West of the town, close to the railway station, the plot of land was given to them by Yusuf’s father-in-law, Baba Fugu Mohammed which was named the Ibn Taimiyyah Masjid. The group was apparently left alone by the authorities, breaking every laws of the state with impunity and it expanded into other states, including Bauchi, Yobe, and Adamawa State among others. An expectedly, the whole world was shake when 276 schoolgirls were kidnapped by Boko Haram and the world reacted by pledging support for the Government of Nigeria and also led to the formation of Bring Back Our Girls campaign (BBOG). As most of those school girls from Chibok are still missing, many people are hopeful that other kidnapped women/children would receive a welcome back. Chris K.((July 2011) and Kelvin, (2016)). The communities believed that the government led de-radicalization process for those who spends years with Boko Haram in captivity, requires a necessary precondition for their integration. As these victims reach internally displaced person (IDP) camps and an attempt to return them to their villages of origin, it has been observed that many of them are suffering from acute mental distress resulting from sexual, psychological and physical violence suffered in captivity, UNICEF and International alert,(2016) and Kevin Sieff, (2016) The problem of the victims is where, when and how to start life, considering the fact that stigmatization may also play some part in their ability to interact well with the general public. Hence the need for government and humanitarian actors (e.g. the United Nation (UN), non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and community base Organizations (CBO) should enhance service provision and access to service for IDPs. “The fear is that they have been converted to Boko Haram’s ideology,” said Mohammed Ali Guja, the chairman of Bama Local Gov’t. “They are now a different person.” Kevin Sieff ,( 2016): “We think they have been more or less brainwashed these children,” said Maj. Gen. Lucky Irabor, (Kevin Sieff ,( 2016): CAUSES OF BOOK HARAM Abdulkarim Mohammed, a researcher on Boko Haram added that, violent unrest in Nigeria are mostly due to "the fallout of frustration with corruption and the attendant social malaise of poverty and unemployment." Eric, (2011). “Boko Haram took root against a backdrop of poverty. But this does not explain why it emerged in Borno state and not in Kaduna or Kano states, which were the epicenters of radical Islamic and religious violence in the 1980s and 1990s” Autumn, (2003). “The neighboring region of Diffa in the Republic of Niger is much poorer. But Diffa is better governed, less corrupt and less affected by a sense of marginalization and social injustice” Autumn, (2003) Boko Haram’s opposition is not only to Western education but also to Western culture and science, a position Mohammed Yusuf made clear in an interview conducted by the BBC, he stated that “the belief that the earth is spherical in shape is a sharp contradiction www.scirj.org © 2018, Scientific Research Journal http://dx.doi.org/10.31364/SCIRJ/v6.i10.2018.P1018570 Scientific Research Journal (SCIRJ), Volume VI, Issue X, October 2018 3 ISSN 2201-2796 to Islamic thought and therefore should be rejected along with Darwinism and the theory that rain comes from water evaporated by the sun”.